Episode 539- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Werewolf Ambulance: A Horror Movie Comedy Podcast
Werewolf Ambulance
4.7 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, we're discussing our good hometown guy, George Romero, and his 1978 classic sequel "Dawn of the Dead." Special topics for your consideration include: MONROEVILLE MALL!, Ken Foree being a total babe, what we might do in the zombie apocalypse other than lie down and die, Spam, amd your neighbor and mine but mostly mine Tom Savini.
Want more of one of Pittsburgh's legends? Catch his work in Episodes 21 and 249- "Creepshow" and "Creepshow 2," respectively, Episode 137- "Monkey Shines," and Episode 488- "Day of the Dead."
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| 0:00.0 | Normally we just stare at each other and wait now. |
| 0:27.0 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:30.3 | I really had to fight to not say wait by White Lion because that is the Pavlovian response that I get. |
| 0:36.1 | What are you talking about? |
| 0:37.2 | You said wait, and so when I hear the word wait, I have to, the song, Wait by White Lion starts playing in my head. Wait, wait, no, I never had a chance to love you. Now I only want to say I love you one more time. If he had never had a chance to love her, why is he going to say it one more time? |
| 0:55.9 | Is this your intro? |
| 0:57.3 | No. |
| 1:00.2 | Katie. |
| 1:01.2 | Alan, is that all going in the episode? |
| 1:03.3 | No. |
| 1:03.7 | Oh, come on. |
| 1:05.2 | It can. |
| 1:05.9 | Leave it. |
| 1:06.6 | Katie. |
| 1:07.1 | What? |
| 1:07.7 | You look so warm in that Allegheny County blanket that you're over there in, |
| 1:13.7 | just luxuriating and accents and all these landmarks. |
| 1:19.2 | It's really, I mean, when the guy shows up wearing the Arco Pitcairn shirt, I was like, |
| 1:23.6 | fuck yeah, shit, Cairn out here. There are so many people that are just like, when they're in Philly, that are people like, nah, I got to go down time. It's so good. It's so good. And the Monroeville Mall was not my home mall. Sure. That's in the east. I lived in the north. Ross Park was my home mall. Sure. But it is exactly as I remember it looking from like going there in high school. Oh, I got, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely the same. It looked not unlike that the first time I went there in like 1998. That's when I was in high school. That makes sense. Why were you at the Monroeville Mall in 1998? Because I loved Donna of the Dead, so I went to the Monroeville Mall. Was it all you dreamed it would be? There was like a hot topic. The Coy Pond was still there. Yes. Gone now. Gone now. Is anything in Monroeville Mall? Nothing is there from the movie, but there is a George Romero bust that you can go and see. |
| 2:21.5 | Not his bust. Not just like a titty statue. |
| 2:24.7 | Just George's tits. |
| 2:26.8 | Why is it called a bust anyway? |
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